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Would airplane mode work?

• metalliqaz 8y ago
  Airplane mode would work, yes. But it only works against the cell provider. The on-phone GPS can still work and sync the data later.
  • hanspeter 8y ago
    I would imagine the airplane mode deactivates GPS signal recipience?
    • gm-conspiracy 8y ago
      Why? Would it only prevent transmission of radio signals, not reception of them. Just the TX, not the RX.
    • ThinkingGuy 8y ago
      I can confirm that it doesn't, at least on the iPhone 7. I recently took one on an overseas trip and left it in airplane mode the whole time. The photos I took during the trip were all properly geotagged.
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    • paulmd 8y ago
      GPS is passive, so there's no need to disable it in airplane mode.
    • DenisM 8y ago
      Nope https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/ios-airplane-mode-gps-nfc/ https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/ios-airplane-mode-gps-n...
  • 8bitsrule 8y ago
    Inside of a faraday cage, there is no GPS reception.
• JetSpiegel 8y ago
  It is implemented below the kernel, nothing you can do in the OS can touch it.